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Feeding disorders in preschoolers: a short-term outcome study in an Italian Family Care Program
No full textPurpose: To provide a description about a cohort of preschoolers with feeding disorders (FD) recruited from the therapeutic nursery "Cerco Asilo" of a tertiary care University Hospital, and to evaluate the short-term clinical outcome after 6 months of multidisciplinary treatment. Methods: The present inception cohort study was based on an observational longitudinal research design comparing families who underwent the multidisciplinary treatment and those who did not. 42 children (47.6% female; 52.4% males-mean age 36.7 months, SD 17.2, range 2.3-65 months) underwent FD assessment according to the DC-0-3R diagnostic criteria (T0). At the end of the assessment, 62% of families with FD children agreed to be included in the family-based treatment. Both treated and untreated children with FD underwent a follow-up clinical evaluation after 6 months (T1) from baseline. Comparison of clinical features at T0 between groups of subjects resolving or not the FD was performed. To evaluate baseline factors associated with FD resolution, principal components analysis (PCA) was used to identify new synthetic variables that were then used in a logistics analysis. Moreover, clinical differences between T1 and T0 were compared with a t test. Results: Two third of the cases (66.7%) resolved the FD, while one third (33.3%) did not. Children who had the FD resolved displayed at T0 significant differences in clinical features with respect to those who did not. Specifically, the FD subtype Feeding Disorder of Caregiver-Infant Reciprocity was strongly associated with resolution, while the subtype Infantile Anorexia was not. In addition, the component depicting "Anxious-Depressed", "Mood" and "Isolation" problems was independently associated with a significantly higher probability of resolution, similar to children having FD other than anorexia. Conclusions: FD in preschoolers are associated with problems in emotional development and in the relationship with parents. These difficulties tend to accentuate if the disorder persists. The study suggests the need to investigate the maintaining factors of FD in preschool age. Level of evidence: Level IV: Evidence obtained from multiple time series with and without the intervention
Parent-child Interaction Treatment for Preschoolers with Feeding Disorders
No full textThis study examined the immediate outcome of Feeding Disorders (FD) in preschoolers referred to the family treatment program Cerco Asilo
Assessment of mental disorders in preschoolers: The multiaxial profiles of diagnostic classification 0-3
No full textA group of 291 preschoolers consecutively enrolled at the Early Childhood Mental Health Service of IRCSS Stella Maris (Italy) were assessed using the Diagnostic Classification Zero to Three (DC:0-3; ZERO TO THREE, 1994). All active variables were extracted from its five axes, and a multiple correspondence analysis was performed. This analysis evidenced four multiaxial clinical profiles: (a) Multisystem developmental disorders (Axis I) were correlated with the underinvolved quality of relationship (Axis II), medical conditions (Axis III), and a low level of emotional functioning (Axis V); (b) regulatory disorders (Axis I) were correlated with maladaptive or angry/hostile relationship (Axis II), medical conditions (Axis III), and an immature level of emotional functioning (Axis V); (c) affective disorders (Axis I) were correlated with anxious/tense relationship (Axis II), stress factors (Axis IV), and emotional functioning vulnerable to stress (Axis V); and (d) adjustment, feeding, and sleeping disorders (Axis I) were correlated with mild relationship disorders (Axis II) and important impact of stress factors (Axis IV). These findings support DC:0-3 as a valid tool to detect multiaxial profiles that could be useful to plan comprehensive treatments of the disorders. © 2013 Michigan Association for Infant Mental Health
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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